My colleagues and I are preparing to submit a review on the organismal responses to winter climate change in terrestrial systems. We would like to be as comprehensive as possible in our literature coverage so are giving our friends and colleagues on ResearchGate the opportunity to bring to our attention papers we may have missed in our literature searches. If you would prefer to email me directly, my address is [email protected]. Thank you for taking the time to contribute.
There is a good recent paper discussing this, using long term data from voles in Finland http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12099/abstract;jsessionid=8CC0CCEAA06777B55CC66BF31F1B2BFF.d01t01?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
An interesting example found here in the SW US is the pine beetle (Dendroctonus). Apparently pine beetle populations were controlled by cold winter temperatures, causing them to cease activity and resulting in substantial winter mortality. With warming winter minimum temperatures, the beetles are staying active and even breeding throughout the winter. The result has been widespread conifer mortality, increased wildfire frequency, and a shift in species composition. There are short term increases in woodpeckers and other species associated with dead trees, and likely declines in species that depend on microclimates provided by mature forests. Overall community turnover could be an outcome.
Hi Caroline,
we (my supervisors and I) are also working on a review paper focusing on the impacts of climate change on African Forests. I am not so sure which area (place) you are covering. If you are also looking at Africa, I can send you some literature I have come across so far. please let me know
Regards
We published a paper last year looking at winter vs spring warming impacts on species phenology: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/23/9000.short
Thank you all for the helpful responses! Justine: Yes, we are interested in all terrestrial areas, providing it pertains to winter climate change specifically (or links between winter and growing season). Benjamin: Indeed, your paper is one of the center pieces of our section on phenology and the impact of chilling/ vernalisation thresholds.
Please you could get alot of info from Prof Kenneth Raffa unversity of Wisconsin he is working extensively on
Mountain Pine Beetles,Pinyon ips, and Spruce Bettles with respect to winter ecology
It may be useful to have a look at some papers by Jürgen Kreyling such as this one: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/09-1160.1
I hope it helps! Best wishes!
Many examples in the Arctic.
You can find our paper on lemmings in my profile (Global Change Biology 2009)
Also a recent review we published with many references (Ann NY Acad Sci 2012)
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In the attached paper we argue that winter precipitation is an important driver of vegetation in the northern Great Plains of North America. Especially see section 8.6. "Mid-Holocene Amaranthaceae, Ambrosia, and high variability."
Article A high-resolution record of climate variability and landscap...
Several studies regarding the Red Imported Fire Ant were conducted a few years ago and, more recently, the Asian Needle Ant.
A Climate Model of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for Invasion of New Regions, Particularly Oceania
http://www.uow.edu.au/~mwand/publicns/Suthers.pdf
Predicted range expansion of the invasive fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, in the eastern United States based on the VEMAP global warming scenario
http://afrsweb.usda.gov/sp2UserFiles/Place/66151015/publications/Morrison_et_al-2005(M-3988).pdf
The utility of species distribution models to predict the spread of invasive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and to anticipate changes in their ranges in the face of global climate change
http://www.life.illinois.edu/suarez/publications/Roura_Suarez2008MyrmNews.pdf
http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=77
Propagule Pressure and Climate Contribute to the Displacement of Linepithema humile by Pachycondyla chinensis
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056281
Dear Caroline,
There are thousands of scientific papers of the effects of climate change on flora and fauna. When you refer to winter climate driving terrestrial species, the first example that pops into my mind is the recent outbreaks of pine beetles, destroying millions of pine trees, both in the US and Canada. To my knowledge is is mainly the less extreme winter temperatures that make the pine beetles survive, where formerly they did not. If you want to know more just Google on "pine beetle climate change" and choose scientific articles.
You could also look in the 4th assessment report of the IPCC (2007) WG2: impact adaptation & vulnerability.
Pine and spruce beetles, 107, 228, 283, 623, 624, 631, 667
See also Disturbance regimes; Insect pests; Insects
P631: "Risks of losses from Southern pine beetle likely depend on the seasonality of warming, with winter and spring warming leading to the greatest damage (Gan, 2004)."
You can download the complete Report from www.ipcc.ch en look for the word Beetle that will yield all occurrences in the report and also most of the references used.
IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 976pp.
Gan, J.B., 2004:Risk and damage of southern pine beetle outbreaks under global climate change. Forest Ecol. Manag., 191, 61-71.
To everyone who contributed to this post - thank you for your suggestions, we tried to incorporate as many as we could. If you are interested, the finished product came out today in Biological Reviews:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12105/abstract
We hope it proves a useful resource.
Thank you!
Caroline
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